Venturella served in DHS under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and returned to the department under President Donald Trump.
Venturella worked for GEO Group, a private rehabilitation-based prison company that works with various government agency partners, includingLyons oversaw the agency for just over a year under former Homeland Security Secretary‘s tenure.
Under his leadership, ICE experienced a great deal of public blowback from Democrats over its immigration enforcement tactics. The agency’s controversy came to a head in January 2026, when an ICE officer shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis. Mullin praised Lyons’s work at the helm of the agency in the April statement announcing his resignation.
“Director Lyons has been a great leader of ICE and key player in helping the Trump administration remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members from American communities. He jumpstarted an agency that had not been allowed to do its job for four years. Thanks to his leadership, American communities are safe,” Mullin said in an April statement. Venturella favors quieter under-the-radar immigration enforcement operations compared to previous enforcement tactics, according to the
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